PCOS finally got renamed and maybe now we'll stop being gaslit about it
Hey, I saw this today and just ran here because I knew you guys would understand in a way nobody else in my life does. They officially renamed PCOS to PMOS (Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome) and the whole point is that this was never about ovarian cysts themselves but it's a hormonal and metabolic condition that affects your whole body and the old name was somehow steering doctors in the wrong direction this whole goddamn time.
I just keep thinking about how many of us spent years going to appointments and being told everything looked mostly fine or borderline or that we just needed to manage our stress better, like girl I have not had a normal cycle since I was 16 and you're telling me to download a meditation app?? The amount of times I sat in a doctor's office describing my symptoms and left feeling like I was making it up or being dramatic is something I can't put into words and then when I ordered my own hormone panel through Goodlabs and had those numbers in front of me things started to move, my insulin was off, my testosterone was elevated and that's what got me started on spironolactone + metformin and I feel like a different person now.
I know a name change doesn't undo any of that and it'll take years before it changes how doctors test and treat this in practice but something about seeing it officially recognized felt like someone finally said out loud what we've been saying in threads like this for years.